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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid one attractive, one vulgar one noble, one ape-like one serious and sincere, one undignified and false one far-sighted, one short EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.
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An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
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The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
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The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
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There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
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The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.
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Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities it is all they have to insure their places in the world.
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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
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The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
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We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.
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